I teach kendo in Tokyo

Kazuma was not surprised that he was recognized - every newspaper had published Kazuma's mugshot, and every news program had shown Kazuma's photo. In this era where traditional media is the main means of information dissemination, theoretically everyone Everyone should recognize Kazuma.

There are few people who can recognize Kazuma in this hot spring street, which shows that it is very closed and few people read news and newspapers.

Kazuma faced him and smiled: "Hello, I am Kazuma Kiryu."

He originally wanted to show off his title, but now he had more interesting questions to ask this person.

"Are you the Lord of God? You are dressed in mountaineering clothes, and there is a basket full of grass on your back. Are you going to the mountains to collect herbs?"

"Oh, as expected of Kiryu-sensei, you figured it out right away!"

Reasoning, your sister, do you still need to reason?

"I thought the plaster made by the god himself picking herbs was just a publicity stunt..." Kazuma was speechless, he really thought that just now.

It's like the small pot of tea I saw in my previous life, showing all the nonsense.

The Lord God waved his hand: "I mainly have nothing to do. This hot spring street has a small permanent population, and during the off-peak tourist season, no one comes to visit us for several weeks.

“I happened to learn how to identify herbs from my father when I was young, and that’s when I started working.”

The god said with a humble smile: "I didn't expect that it would become a famous product after a lot of time. This plaster is actually not that effective at all. It's just that the herbs are mixed with mint. It's very comfortable to put on it and cool it down. Everyone thinks it's effective."

Kazuma glanced at the plaster that had been packaged by Hiroko, and wondered if this was just a placebo effect...

Before Kazuma could speak, the God Master continued: "Teacher Kiryu, you're here. Let's have a sip of tea before you leave. Seeing how sweaty you are, it's my fault to let you go down the mountain like this."

As soon as the Lord God finished speaking, Kazuma realized that he was indeed a little thirsty. He should replenish water in time and put out all his energy - no, he was just to be careful of heatstroke.

He nodded and said: "It's good to take a rest. My apprentice Tamao just climbed up the stone steps at the door, and asking her to come down with me is like bullying her."

Tamamo: "I'm okay. Proper exercise helps keep me in shape."

Kazuma glanced at her slim waist and said nothing.

Divine Master: "Well, please come this way. Hiroko, you can pack up and leave."

After that, the god himself walked to the building connected to the social office, which should be his home.

Kazuma and Tamamo followed.

Behind them, Hiroko was cleaning up before closing the business, closing the sales window of the social office and pulling up the anti-theft fence.

**

The Lord's home is a very typical Japanese-style building, with most of the interior walls being sliding doors that can be opened.

However, compared to the magnificent Japanese-style buildings that Kazuma had seen before, this house is full of life.

And it can be seen that the Lord God is not a master who likes to clean up the house. The body of ground herbs, half-written signatures and unfinished ointment packaging boxes are scattered in the room.

There are also all kinds of books everywhere.

Kazuma noticed something: the books scattered everywhere were mostly detective novels.

In particular, there are many detective novels stuffed on the shelf at the door of the toilet.

It seems that the Lord God is a person who likes to read books to enrich himself while squatting.

And according to He Ma's lifelong experience, such people generally need Ma Yinglong's rescue.

The god opened the sliding door of the living room and said to Kazuma: "Please come inside and I will get you iced barley tea."

Kazuma nodded and asked casually: "Is there electricity on this mountain?"

"Of course there is electricity, otherwise where would the lighting come from during the festival? Do you use torches? There is a hidden danger of forest fires."

He Ma joked: "Set fire to the mountain and sit at the bottom of the prison."

The Lord God laughed, opened the door to the kitchen and got in.

Tamamo had already entered the living room, but Kazuma was in no hurry to go in. He looked through the books at the door of the toilet, and then unexpectedly found a copy of "Modern Criminal Investigation" among a pile of detective novels.

There was a bookmark in the book. Kazuma opened the bookmarked page and found that the inner pages of the book were filled with things like students taking class notes.

He couldn't help but frown and carefully put the book back in its place.

Then he scanned the books on the shelf again and found Durkheim's "On Suicide."

At first glance, this book does not fit in with a bunch of detective novels and "Modern Criminal Investigation", but since Ma Ma has systematically studied modern psychology in elective courses all his life, he knows that "Suicide Theory" is not simple. The concept of "anomie" it proposed in the study of suicide was later widely used in the field of criminal psychology.

If you think about it carefully, there is a bit of black humor in this matter.

Durkheim divided suicide into several categories in this book. The last category is "anomic suicide." After a person loses social control, there is another outcome besides suicide, which is to become a criminal.

Kazuma recalled what he had learned in the psychology elective course in his previous life, and then put the book back on the shelf.

This God Lord deserves to get hemorrhoids if he reads such a hardcore book while going to the toilet.

While Kazuma was thinking this, the god came out of the restaurant with barley tea.

"Teacher Kiryu, why don't you come in and sit down?"

"Go right now."

As he said that, Hema entered the living room, and then he found that the living room was quite cool.

There is a constant flow of natural wind from the open sliding door.

The wind chimes hanging under the edge of the corridor were tinkling.

Tamamo sat next to the door that opened to the outside, and the cool breeze blowing through her forehead stirred her sweat-dampened hair.

Kazuma decisively chose a seat that was more convenient for admiring Tamamo and sat down.

The priest placed a large glass in front of him: "I'm sorry, I haven't had a guest here for a long time. The ceramic tea cup used for entertaining guests has not been washed for an unknown period of time. Let's make do with the glass."

"No problem, the glass represents modern industrial culture, I quite like it." Kazuma smiled, and then asked unexpectedly, "Master Shen likes to read in the toilet so much, won't he get hemorrhoids?"

There was an obvious pause in the god's hand pouring the tea, and some of the tea splashed out, falling on Kazuma's arm, cold.

It seems that this person is already suffering from hemorrhoids.

I don’t know if Ma Yinglong can be bought in Japan in this era.

Tamamo looked at Kazuma and frowned slightly.

Sure enough, even Tamamo couldn't bear to ask such a question to a stranger whom she met for the first time today.

Kazuma pretended not to see Tamamo's expression, and calmly changed the question, as if the sentence just now didn't exist: "Kamilord, are you a fan of detective novels?"

The god returned to normal at this time. He filled the two guests with barley tea, put the teapot on the table, and sat across from the guests.

"My surname is Ota, please call me Ota."

"Well, Ohta-san, you have a lot of detective novels here."

"Ah, yes, I like to read detective novels to pass the time in my spare time." Ohta said with a smile.

Kazuma: "What about "On Suicide"? Is that also a way to kill time?"

Since it was normal for detective novel fans to have a copy of "Modern Criminal Investigation" at home, Kazuma skipped this book and asked about another book.

Ohta's expression remained normal: "Most people may think that "The Theory of Suicide" among a bunch of detective novels is out of place, but Kiryu-sensei definitely doesn't think so, right?"

Kazuma: "Why do you say that?"

"Because you are an expert in solving crimes. You must be proficient in criminal investigation and know that this book "Theory of Suicide" is closely related to modern criminal psychology."

Kazuma thought to himself: When did I become an expert in solving crimes again?

Previous press conferences and other events focused on highlighting my bravery, deliberately avoiding solving the case and saving the police's face.

Taitian looked at Kazuma's expression, then turned around and pulled out a weekly magazine Fang Chun from a pile of debris.

He Ma was speechless.

He vaguely guessed what happened.

Ohta opened one of the pages with ease, put the magazine up and showed it to Kazuma: "This article details how you solved the serial suicide case in the refrigerator."

Kazuma didn't read the article, but looked directly at who wrote it, and suddenly he saw Hanabusa Takashi's name.

It seems that after the article about Kazuma burning 100 million yen, Hanabusa Takashi wrote another article two weeks later detailing how he solved the case.

And Hanabusa Takashi didn't tell Kazuma about this.

So Kazuma just wants to rush back to Tokyo and blow this reporter's head off.

"Well, Ohta-san," Kazuma rubbed his nose, "most of the contents of Weekly Fang Chun are just random things."

"But this article is written as rigorously as a detective novel." Ohta added, with the subtext being "This can still be fake."

Kazuma: "That guy Takashi Hanabusa must have written it like this on purpose. Listen, the detectives from the 1st and 4th Investigation Sections of the Metropolitan Police Department solved the case."

"But, Kiryu-sensei also aspires to become a detective, right? Don't you have a chance to test your skills in these cases?"

No, I'm trying my best.

But Kazuma smiled and replied: "No. The detectives at the Metropolitan Police Department are very professional, and there is no room for a layman like me to intervene."

"That's it." Lord Ota showed an obviously disappointed expression.

"Ota-san, you are so disappointed. Could it be that there is an incident that needs someone who is good at criminal investigation to solve it?" Tamamo asked unexpectedly.

"No!" Ota denied it subconsciously, but he immediately hesitated. After a brief hesitation, he let out a breath and said, "Actually, there is."

Kazuma: "The detective novels in your home all look new, and some of them are obviously purchased by mail. The books are stamped with the time stamp when they were sold. I'm afraid you just fell in love with reading detective novels recently, right?"

Ota stared at Kazuma with wide eyes.

Although he didn't speak, Kazuma seemed to hear him asking: "Chang Wei, you still said you don't know martial arts?"

Kazuma ignored it and continued to ask: "The "On Suicide" I just looked through is still stamped with the seal of the town hall library. It should be a collection of books there. Could it be that it was brought back from the library?"

Ota nodded, but immediately reacted and shook his head: "No, no! I borrowed it, and I just wanted to return it next time I go to the town. As a result, I haven't been to the town for several months."

"Can't you let Hiroko take over for you? She's in high school in the town, right?" Tamamo said.

"Ask a girl to take this kind of book to the library and return it, and strange rumors will spread immediately. There is even little gossip in this kind of mountain, and they will not let go of this excellent subject." When Ohta said this Feeling very depressed, Kazuma speculated that he might have been hurt by messages before.

"Ignore these details for now," Kazuma waved his hand, "Let's talk about the important thing. You only started reading detective novels and studying modern criminal investigation because of the accident that happened to Meiji University's fantasy creature research group last year. Criminal psychology, right?”

Ota took a deep breath, then nodded to Kazuma: "Yes. I suspect that it was not an accident."

"What's the reason?"

"When they went up the mountain, it was daytime, and there were no clouds. The sun was very bright. On such days, as long as you don't run around in the mountains and forests, it's hard to get into trouble."

Kazuma immediately retorted: "Maybe they just got lost in the mountains and were still looking for their way at night, and then their feet slipped and tragedy happened."

"The time of death doesn't match up." Ota replied, "Because I am a god, and I have some respect with the police in the area. I have asked, and the one who died should have died during the day."

Kazuma spread his hands: "Then maybe they were running in the mountains and forests. In detective novels, this may be enough to convict someone, but in reality it is not possible. There must be a complete chain of evidence."

In "Conan", Conan always finds one or two pieces of evidence and loudly announces that he has solved the case. In fact, that method of solving cases does not work in any country. It does not take a very good lawyer to complete the innocence defense on the grounds of "insufficient evidence". .

Therefore, every case in Conan must end with a confession by the murderer, because in Japan as long as the murderer confesses, his signed confession is overwhelming evidence in court.

Ohta had only read detective novels and modern criminal investigation science, and probably didn't know much about how Japanese justice worked, so he looked at Kazuma with a surprised look on his face: "Can't you convict someone if the time doesn't match up?"

"Of course not. If you want to overturn the conclusion that he died in an accident, you must have a complete chain of evidence - of course you can also find the murderer and make him plead guilty and serve the law."

Ohta lowered his eyes and looked at the table: "This won't work... I thought Hantian must have put pressure on the county police in order to protect this hot spring tourism development plan."

Kazuma immediately recalled the information he had heard from the hotel's female general, Ms. Ubashima, and asked: "Is Hantian that... the deputy minister of the Ministry of Transport?"

Ota looked at Kazuma and nodded vigorously: "Yes, that's him."

In Japan, politicians and officials are separated. The top politicians are constantly replaced, but the iron-clad official system remains unchanged.

Therefore, the real power of various departments of the Japanese government is in the hands of the deputy ministers. They are responsible for maintaining the operation of the entire system, providing advice to the politicians who have been replaced, and implementing the new ideas of the new boss.

Of course, junior ministers can also enter politics after accumulating performance. At this time, they will become politicians of the XX family based on their origins, and they will work closely with relevant interest groups.

This Han Tian probably had similar thoughts.

As someone who came from the Ministry of Transport, a large part of his base is local tourism promotion associations.

Providing good hot spring tourism in his hometown will not only repay the blind date, but also be of great benefit to his future.

So it's normal for Ota to suspect that Hantian is behind it.

But Kazuma still doesn't understand something: "You... just because the time of death was in the daytime, you suspected that it was not an accident? Isn't that right? You first suspected that it was not an accident, and then you went to inquire about it, didn't you?"

The police would not take the initiative to tell the insignificant details such as the time of death to the Lord of God. This must have caused him to become suspicious first.

Ota pursed his lips and was silent for a while, as if he was remembering something.

Finally he said: "I had a good relationship with the deceased Watanabe-kun. He was a very cautious, very smart, and somewhat arrogant child. It's hard for me to imagine that he would actually slip and fall down the mountain."

"Everyone has the potential to slip, even cats, who are athletic predators, can overturn sometimes."

Moreover, when video websites become more popular in the future, the overturned cats will also be made into video collections to please the terrifying upright apes.

Kazuma's words did not sway Ohta. He continued: "Arrogant children are easily bullied in school, even in college. During the conversation, I could feel that Watanabe-kun was treated with a certain degree of indifference at school. Violence.

"Moreover, Watanabe-kun is very talented. Even among the children who passed the very difficult selection process and entered Meiji University, he is very outstanding. In addition, he has a good relationship with Miss Akanishi, so it is inevitable that there will be some among his classmates. People who are jealous of him.”

"However, even if those college students - those seniors at Meiji University have motives, we cannot conclude that they are criminals just because of their motives. We need evidence." Kazuma said.

"Yes, I know. So this year I kept going into the mountains to look for evidence."

"I see. I'm just saying that your hiking clothes still look new. You don't look like someone who has been going into the mountains to collect herbs for many years."

Ota laughed: "It is a publicity standard set by the Tourism Promotion Association for many years to go to the mountains to collect herbs - Oh, it is true that I insist on grinding my own herbs to make plasters, but I used to grow my own herbs in the fields around the shrine. That's it.

"People from the local agricultural cooperative don't know about herbal medicine, and since I don't buy fertilizer or get a loan, they don't care about me."

Kazuma brought back the topic that was about to go off topic: "So you have been running into the mountains this year. Have you found any evidence?"

"This... I don't know if it's something that counts as evidence. I'll get it for you."

Ota got up and left the living room, and came back a moment later with the small box and opened it in front of Kazuma.

There was a lot of dirty garbage in the small box.

"Because I was worried about washing off the fingerprints and other things on it, I didn't rinse it when I got it back. I just put it away."

"You didn't leave your fingerprints on it, did you?" Kazuma asked.

"Of course not. I picked it up with gloves on. I understand this."

Kazuma nodded. Because he didn't have gloves, he didn't pick up the items, so he just put them in the box and observed them.

What caught his eye the most was a dirty butterfly hair accessory: "This hair accessory..."

"This is Akanishi-san's hair accessory. She wore it when she went into the mountains that day, but she didn't have it when she came back." Ota said, "Because Akanishi-san is a beautiful and lively person, this hair accessory looks like a real butterfly when she runs. It was flying up and down, I remember it very clearly."

Kazuma nodded, pointed to the remains of a lighter and asked, "What about this one? It looks like an ordinary plastic lighter."

"This is Watanabe-kun's lighter. At least the color is the same, but I'm not sure if other tourists went up the mountain with lighters of the same color. After all, we sell this kind of lighter in convenience stores here, and it's very cheap, so cheap If it is lost, I will never bother to find it.”

Kazuma nodded slowly while scanning the remaining items, then pointed at one of them that looked like some kind of fragment and asked, "What is this?"

The god opened his mouth to answer, but Tamamo spoke first: "This is a turtle back tablet, used for divination. There should be a charm from the Yayoi period on the other side. But this should be a modern product. I don't remember this thing ever being unearthed."

Kazuma pinched Tamamo's thigh under the low table to remind her that she was bald.

How do you know it if you haven't unearthed it before?

Tamamo immediately shut up and watched Ota's expression with Kazuma. However, Ohta was completely unaware of the logical problem here. He nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, there are indeed patterns on the back. As expected of a student from Tokyo University, he knows a lot."